Creative Commons Sponsored Software ccHost Release
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| These features most notably show up and are tested in Creative Commons'
| project, ccMixter (www.ccmixter.org), a popular on-line social network
| service that supports legal music sharing and remixing.
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http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/01/035244
Creative Commons eliminates the middlemen.
Also in the news yesterday, the RIAA's tactics of scaring students and
offering bail opportunities get mentioned. Of course, movements such as the
ones above will, in due time, eliminate record companies (sans
tiered/limited Web).
Will a commercial BitTorrent lead to more piracy?
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| Bittorrent is best known for illicit use: it's the download protocol
| of choice for more than 80m savvy net users to get legal files (such
| as Linux distributions) and, far more frequently, copyrighted ones
| (such as feature films).
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| [...]
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| The problem for the content companies is, some of the music and
| other content on BitTorrent is free - helping to acquaint people
| who'd not otherwise understand how to use the protocol with the
| process of getting torrent files legally.
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http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2023191,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=20
They ought to realise that rivers run dry. Just as software becomes freely
distributable, entertainment can be exchanged for nothing but traffic costs.
Related:
There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
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| So far from being an impediment
| to so-called "online piracy," it's DRM itself that keeps
| fueling it and driving it forward.
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http://preview.baens-universe.com/articles/salvos6
iTunes DRM Inspires People to Pirate Content
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| BitTorrent Inc president and co-founder, Ashwin Navin says that iTunes'
| DRM is "a time bomb waiting to happen," and that it will inspire
| people to pirate content. The irony is that his company is about to
| launch a video store that heavily implements Microsoft?s Windows DRM.
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http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-inc-itunes-drm-inspires-people-to-pirate-content/
MPAA: Frustrated Consumers Will Pirate
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| The MPAA's Brad Hunt outlined some of the ways the MPAA is working
| to standardize content protection controls in the age of digital
| home networking. But he also acknowledged that piracy is the
| consumer's answer to the content industry's inability to provide
| a simple digital-rights-management solution.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20061016/tc_zd/191502
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